DXersaid

DXersaid

The “Analyst Footnote” is from the ” Recommendation for Continued Detention Under DoD Control (CD) for Guantanamo Detainee, ISN US9YM-000569DP (S) JTF-GTMO Detainee Assessment “Zohair Mohammed Said.” He met with 9/11 hijackers and Sufaat in December 1999 in Malaysia.

[ Detainee traveled to Malaysia approximately between 18 December and 28 December 1999. ]

“The purpose of the trip to Malaysia was to accompany YM-10014 to the hospital for his fitting for a prosthetic leg. Approximately the
10th or 20th day of Ramadan 1999, detainee and YM-10014 left Kabul for Kandahar, then
traveled to Kuala Lumpur, MY.15 Detainee and YM-10014 resided at a hospital for 10 to 14
days while YM-10014 was fitted for the prosthetic leg. Detainee and YM-10014 left the
hospital and were driven to the home of Yazid Sufaat.16 The next day, 11 September 2001
hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi arrived at the home. The next evening, the three of them went to a
restaurant where they met another 11 September 2001 hijacker, Khalid al-Mihdhar. A few
days later, al-Hazmi and al-Mihdhar returned to Saudi Arabia. YM-10014 gave detainee
money for his travel expenses and returned to Pakistan and planned to meet detainee later in
Afghanistan. Detainee contacted Ahmad Sajuli who assisted detainee in making travel
arrangements. Detainee returned to Yemen and visited his family.17 Unable to obtain
employment at the factory where he had previously worked, detainee returned to Afghanistan
through Kandahar, staying at a guesthouse operated by Abu Khalud. Detainee then traveled
to Kabul, staying at a guesthouse in the Karte Parwan area.18 Upon the commencement of
hostilities with the US, detainee left Kabul and traveled through Kandahar to a safe house in
Spin Boldak, AF. After an undetermined amount of time, detainee crossed into Pakistan and
continued on to a house in Karachi, staying there for twenty days.19”